Machine for applying printed labels to bottles



Patented Dec. 9, 1924.

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.ARTHUR LESLIE FLOWER, 0F VVAKEEIELD, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR APPLYING PRINTED LABELS TO BOTTLES.

Application led April 22, 1924. Serial No. 708,221.

To all fr0/0m t may concer/a.'

Be it known that I, 'ARTHUR LESLIE FLOWER, a British subject, and resident of 19a Ings Road, Vestgate, lvakefield, Yorkshire, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Applying Printed Labels to Bottles, oi' which the following is a specification, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to machines for applying printed labels to bottles and of that kind in which the labels are removable one at a time from a holder for application to the bottle and'in which, between the said removing` and the application, they are generally supplied with an adhesive.

It is often desirable that the labels shall be dated or otherwise marked with an india rubber, metal or other stamp for purpose of reference or notification at a later date and my invention is designed to enable this dating or other such marking to be easily and accurately effected and with but small addition to the machine to which the invention is applied.

For this purpose it has been previously suggested to provide a pivoted lever with a stamp, the lever being rocked by a moving part of the machine, the movement of the lever also serving to move an inking roller over the type. It has also been suggested to rock a type-carrying lever by means ot a pulley and chain, the pulley being rotated by a rack and pinion device operated by a. reciprocating part of the machine, whilst the stamp was inked by a roller carried by a label-picking device.

According to the present invention the dating or other stamp is pivotally mounted on a spindle at one end of a bell crank lever and on the movement of the bell crank lever is rotated on its axis from the inking position .into the printing position. This move nient is preferably elilected by means of toothed wheel gearing disposed between the spindle of the stamp and the pivot of the bell crank lever.

As above indicated the type of stamp may vary but in a general way an india rubber stamp coacting with an ink pad is suf-- '.ticient, the type of the stamp or the stamp i self being interchangeable at will.

I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing in which the upper part a of a labelling machine is seen and is provided with a carrier I) for the labels c. These labels are held down by a plate el on a stem e to which is fitted a gripping device f having a leafspring g. rllhese parts are substantially known.

Above the holder I pivot a lever 1 the free end 2 of which is positioned above an aperture 3 in the frame a and over a plunger 4f which is vertically reciprocated from any convenient part of the machine.

The other end of the lever is adapted at 5 to receive the upper T shaped end of a rod 6 passing through a guide 7 on a bracket 11. on the frame a. The lower end of this rod is fitted to a bell-crank lever 8 9 pivoted at 10 on the bracket 11 fixed to the frame a. The arm 9 (which may be of double or pair form) carries the stamp 12 the type 13 of which impacts against an ink pad 14 supported on bracket 11. The stamp 12 is pivoted on spindle 15 on the arm 9 and carries a toothed wheel 16 in mesh with another wheel 17 also on lever 9 which latter engages a lixed tooth segment 18.

The action is substantially as follows the plunger 4 rises and strikes the end 2 of lever 1 thus depressing the other end 5 and causing the rod 6 to rock the lever 8 9 from its full line position to that indicated by dotted lines immediately below the labels and brings the india rubber or other stamp against the bottom label onto which the date or other matter is printed. Upon the fall of plunger 4 the lever' 1 returns to the 'full line position shown and its movement may be assisted by a spring coiled round the pivot on which the lever 8 9 rocks or arranged in some other place. As the lever 8 9 moves the wheel 17 is turned because of its engagement with the i'ixed sector 18 and this wheel rotates the wheel 1G and brings the stamp into its correct positions relative to the pad and the labels.

Above the label holder a cover 19 is pivoted on pin at 20. This cover carries the lever 1 and has the rod e passed through it, iVheiA the labels are to be replenished the lever 1 and rod 6 are disconnected at 5, the rod e and plate d are raised and the cover turned to one side thus givii'ig free access to the interior of holder Z9.

What I claim is In a bottle labelling machine, a label carrier open at the lower end, a cover for said label Carrier, e leverpivotully supported .on a rod connected to'said -bell crank lever and said cover andhaving an operative end arhaving separable connection with the first ranged beyond the'holder, an inkingrpadarf. mentioned lever, whereby the Cover of the ranged below and (spaced from the holder, 2t holderand jthe iirstv mentioned lever may be stamp to oooperatewith said pad, a bell readily turned from holder covering posicrank lever pivotally supported between the tion` without interfering with the normal pad and holder, one end of said lever eerryrelation ofthe Istzunp and parts connected ing the stamp, means onthe,,leverandl frame therewith.

of the maehineto turn the stamp into Op In testimony whereof I have signed my posed :relatively rightangle positions inthe name to this specifieeition, 1 Y movement2 from ,the ,padto theholder, and ARTHUR FLOWER. 

